New Jersey lawmaker Tim Eustace has introduced a bill to prevent the “gay panic” defence from being used in the state. The defence has been used in other states, including recently in California, to reduce murder convictions to manslaughter based on a supposed uncontrollable rage brought on by advances from a gay person. The gay-panic defence has been invoked more than 45 times in the United States, according to one LGBT group.

Two firefighters were not discriminated against by being forced to drive a truck in a Pride parade, the Rhode Island Supreme Court has decided. The unanimous decision said that the job was a legitimate work assignment and that the two firefighters were “relatively anonymous.”

In an interview with Germany’s public broadcaster, German MP Volker Beck says Western states should consider opening their embassies to persecuted gay people in countries like Egypt. “It has to be made clear that it is not acceptable that the current regime gets a free pass for whatever human rights abuses occur in the name of Islam,” he said.